Keynote Speakers
大會專題演講者介紹

Dr. Jong-Shinn Wu is currently the Director General of Taiwan Space Agency (TASA) managing over 600 employees working on space technology development, and the Professor at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. He received his BS and MS degrees both in Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, and his Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, USA in 1994. After being a postdoc at UM until late 1995, he returned to Taiwan and worked at the National Space Organization (NSPO, TASA now) for two and half years. He then joined the Mechanical Engineering Dept. of National Chiao Tung University in 1998 till now. He was the Distinguished Professor, the Founder and former Director of Advanced Rocket Research Center (ARRC), and the Founder and former President of Taiwanese Association of Plasma & Technology (TAPST). He has received many prestigious awards including the 2023 Japan ISPlasma Special Recognition Award, the 2018 Taiwan MOST Outstanding Research Award, and the MOST Future Technology Award (2017, 2021). He is the elected IAA Corresponding Member, ASME Fellow, AIAA Associate Fellow, IEEE Senior Member, AIAA Hybrid Rocket Technical Committee member, and IEEE Emerging Plasma Nanotechnologies (TC 17) Committee Member. His research interests include space systems engineering, rarefied gas dynamics modeling, rocket propulsion, non-equilibrium plasma modeling, atmospheric-pressure plasmas, and general parallel scientific computing involving CPUs and GPUs.

He has constantly given invited/plenary lectures in parallel simulations of plasma and rarefied gas dynamics domestically and internationally. He is currently on the Editorial Board of Aerospace (2023-) and Advisory Editorial Board of AIAA Journal (2025-). He was on the Editorial Board of Coatings (2021-2022), the Guest Editor of Computers & Fluids (2010-2012), IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science (2014-2016) and Journal of Computers and Mathematics with Applications (2015-2016). He has been the Chairs and members of the Advisory/Organizing Committee of many important international conferences in plasma and computational fluid dynamics for the past 15 years. In addition, he co-chaired another two important upcoming conferences, which include the 16th and 17th International Conference on Flow Dynamics (Sendai, Japan) in 2019 and 2020, and the 32nd International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics (Seoul, South Korea) in 2020. He has published 159 Journal papers with more than 45,00 citations and an H-index of 37 as of January 2026.

Deanna Lacoste graduated with a Ph.D. in combustion science from the University of Poitiers, France, in 2002. She obtained her Habilitation to Direct Research (H.D.R.) from the same university, in 2011. She started to work on plasma physics and on plasma assisted combustion in 2003, at Ecole Centrale Paris (now CentraleSupelec). After eleven years with the French CNRS, at CentraleSupelec, in 2014 she joined the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), in Saudi Arabia. Since 2021, she is an associate professor of mechanical engineering affiliated with the Clean Energy Research Platform. She is an editor of the Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, and an editorial board member of the Applications in Energy and Combustion Science and the Progress in Energy and Combustion Science journals. Her research mainly focusses on plasma-assisted combustion, non-equilibrium plasma discharges at atmospheric pressure, control of flame dynamics, and detonation.